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On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
Fundamentally, that if we allow the American people to believe that we are going to tolerate a regime that not only has unbelievable humanitarian atrocities that continue to get leveled on an almost daily basis but that we are going to tolerate it as an American people, it sends the wrong message.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Ros-Lehtinen emphasizes the importance of not tolerating humanitarian atrocities.

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